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Bird flu may not have become the threat to humans that some predicted because our noses are too cold for the virus to thrive, UK researchers say.
英國研究人員稱，禽流感可能對人類沒有威脅，因為我們的鼻子裡溫度低，病毒沒法繁殖。
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Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive in the 1990s will live an average of 5 years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air.
研究人員估計，因為呼吸更汙濁的空氣，上世紀90年代居住於北方的5億居民要比南部的居民平均少活5年。
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Can heterosexual men and women ever be “just friends”? Daily experience suggests that non-romantic friendships between males and females are not only possible, but common.
異性戀男女之間有沒有純粹的友誼？日常經驗告訴我們，男女之間純粹的友誼不僅僅是可能的，而且還很普遍。
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A former British taxi driver has become the first person in the world for 3000 years to be mummified in the same way as the pharaohs.
一位英國出租車司機去世後，被製成木乃伊，成為3000年來首個仿照古埃及人制作木乃伊法老的方法制作的木乃伊。
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Millions of people in Asia will see the longest total solar eclipse this century as swathes of India and China are plunges into darkness.
亞洲數百萬人將會看到本世紀持續時間最長的一次日全食，屆時印度和中國將會被籠罩在黑暗之中。